Better question, why do we still get that junk loot? Does the two dollars really make that much of a difference to free and premium players when they sell?
The higher the instance is, the higher the cost of the trash loot is. Selling a scrap vial at level 8 and selling a broken sword at cr100 is a big difference in price.
Being legendary from the get go, I never realized that. It's always been delete, delete, delete. I guess it is useful to them. Never mind
I think turning of "Combat Misc" in the chat settings stops dispalying that in your chat. But also feat notifications of group members. Maybe more, dunno atm.
^ I don't believe that works, as it's associated with Group chat, which is what the OP is talking about.
Originally grey items were suppose to be like collections. Or, get enough of them and then use them for R&D. Both never happened. The main use they have now is for low-levels to earn money to pay for repairs.
It's faster to just wait and then sell it all to vendors rather than having to delete each one individually. The NPC doesn't require confirmation each time.